Lou Becht joined the University of Delaware Student Services for Athletes Department as an intern in 2015-2016.

Becht works closely with the rest of the SSA staff to provide academic assistance and educational counseling to student-athletes from a variety of Delaware athletics teams. In addition, he teaches BHAN135, a freshman seminar course.

A native of the Philadelphia, Pa. suburbs, Becht earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, where he was a member of the Penn JV basketball team. He earned his master’s degree in education from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa. in 2006.

He completed his doctorate in educational leadership at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia in May, 2017. His dissertation, titled “Division III Student-Athletes’ Experiences of Institutional Social and Academic Systems,” focuses on the social, academic, and athletic experiences of Division III student-athletes and how these are impacted by their institution’s support services.

Becht brings an array of teaching and coaching experience to his position at UD. He previously worked as a high school history teacher in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and coached boys basketball and girls soccer at Archbishop Carroll High School. He was an assistant volleyball coach at Cabrini College for five seasons, spent three seasons as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Widener University, and one season as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Philadelphia University.

During his time at both Widener and Philadelphia U., he was tasked with monitoring the academic progress of the basketball teams through study halls and weekly meetings.

Becht and his wife, Trish, reside in Blue Bell, Pa. with their son, Taylor Patrick.